Thank Anti-Vaxxers for Lyme Disease

[Warpy]

3. I've had Lyme and trust me, you don't want it

Oh, I noticed the bulls-eye rash and got appropriate treatment but it meant struggling through life for three weeks of spiking temps over 103F. It also meant excision of the area I was bitten because it continued to fester for almost a year, giving me another great scar.

Lyme is a very old disease, Oetzi was found to have it some 5500 years ago and it possibly contributed to his heart disease, so far the worst complication confirmed attributable to untreated Lyme. Only when wealthy people in the Connecticut exurbs started to get sick from it was it identified and the vectors named.

I would hope the vaccine is reintroduced at some point and that it is safe and effective.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/oetzi-iceman-mummy-alps-lyme-disease-lactose-intolerance/story?id=15816788